Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

That's Right.

By Emily Temple | November 11, 2020

The Dissident Act of Taking a<br> Walk at Night

The Dissident Act of Taking a
Walk at Night

Matthew Beaumont on Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian"

By Matthew Beaumont | November 11, 2020

Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

James Tate Hill with the Recommendations We Need

By James Tate Hill | November 11, 2020

A Poetic Structure Built on Many Voices: Talking to Matthew Daddona

A Poetic Structure Built on Many Voices: Talking to Matthew Daddona

Joannie Stangeland Speaks to the Author of House of Sound

By Joannie Stangeland | November 11, 2020

On the Dark American Nostalgia of <em>Cheaper By the Dozen</em>

On the Dark American Nostalgia of Cheaper By the Dozen

Historian April Holm Joins Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | November 10, 2020

In Which Jonathan Lethem Possibly Overthinks Our Interview Questions

In Which Jonathan Lethem Possibly Overthinks Our Interview Questions

BONUS: On the Importance of Not Writing

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2020

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Why are we so hungry for books about cannibals?

By Katie Yee | November 9, 2020

Down the Wormhole with Jonathan Lethem: On Male Complicity and Publishing in a Pandemic

By Brian Gresko | November 9, 2020

Shirley Hazzard's Heroines and the World That
Misunderstood Them

By Zoë Heller | November 9, 2020

How Claire Malroux's Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

How Claire Malroux's Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

Marilyn Hacker on Memory, Materiality, and Family

By Marilyn Hacker | November 9, 2020

The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | November 9, 2020

No One Gets Sylvia Plath

No One Gets Sylvia Plath

Emily Van Duyne on Loving, and Misunderstanding, an Icon

By Emily Van Duyne | November 6, 2020

Leanne Hall Examines Her Problematic Childhood Fave

Leanne Hall Examines Her Problematic Childhood Fave

On Forming Intense Friendships with Fictional Characters

By Leanne Hall | November 6, 2020

Elisa Wouk Almino on Beloved Brazilian Poet <br>Ana Cristina Cesar

Elisa Wouk Almino on Beloved Brazilian Poet
Ana Cristina Cesar

A Writer in Search of "the Tyranny of Inspiration.”

By Elisa Wouk Almino | November 6, 2020

P. Djèlí Clark Imagines the Monstrous Creation of the Second Ku Klux Klan

P. Djèlí Clark Imagines the Monstrous Creation of the Second Ku Klux Klan

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | November 6, 2020

A Brief History of Citational Fiction and the Literary Supercut

A Brief History of Citational Fiction and the Literary Supercut

Tom Comitta on the Stigmas and Innovations of Reappropriation

By Tom Comitta | November 5, 2020

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